Re: Building shared libs as dynamically-loaded perl modules

[Brian May]

>>>>> "Alexandre" == Alexandre Oliva <address@hidden> writes:

    Alexandre> And that's the catch.  On some platforms, you just
    Alexandre> can't link static libraries into shared ones.  Not even
    Alexandre> if they're PIC.

Yuck.

    Alexandre>  Convenience libraries, with the
    Alexandre> abstraction of ``aliases to sets of objects'', should
    Alexandre> just work.  It's just that they are not currently
    Alexandre> installable.  I wish they were.  And I wish convenience
    Alexandre> libraries could still come in PIC and non-PIC versions,
    Alexandre> just like object files.  Currently, every time you
    Alexandre> create a convenience archive, you don't get the non-PIC
    Alexandre> objects, unless the PIC objects aren't available.

I agree here. I think convenience libraries need to compile two sets
of libraries: *.a which contains non-PIC code and *.al which contains
PIC code.
-- 
Brian May <address@hidden>